When Sodapoppin learned that the Twitch employees let go on March 20 were not informed of their coworkers’ identities prior to the public announcement, she was startled.
The layoffs are a part of larger cutbacks at Amazon, Twitch’s parent firm, which will result in the elimination of about 9,000 jobs. As a result, Twitch will lose 400 team members. Reading the briefing, Twitch user Sodapoppin noticed that the staff members hadn’t been informed of who was departing the firm. “Wait, the people who got fired don’t even know who yet? Oh my god. That’s crazy. I mean I don’t know how this kind of stuff works, I’m just a stupid streamer. But that sucks. That’s got to be stressful as f*ck. There are 1100 people working and 400 people got fired? That’s almost half. That’s a 50% chance.”
These layoffs are a part of Amazon’s larger corporate plan to reduce the number of employees. The effort to swiftly hire more employees throughout Amazon in recent years had made financial sense, but according to a message from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, it was now necessary to scale down on some of those expansions due to the present volatility.
He said; “Given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount.”
